i come from higher education i think there's there's something to be said for teacher education and for the history and future of the schools, it is no secret that all of these statistics that lower qualified students go into education professions, i think that has to do with the money problem, they are not in ties to buy big salaries but it also has to do with the structure of higher education. schools of education have moved farther away from the more prestigious disciplines in the last decade. so what does that mean, if you're you're serious about history you go and think about you don't go to be a history teacher, we need both of those things, we do not need both of the division and a real looking down the nose from the disciplines. i've seen it from both sides for people who study education. i think that attributes a lot as well. >> thank you. great question. [applause]. >> speaking of throwing money at problems, i am from washington state and the gates family has a huge influence in terms of human money and expecting certain results. do you have any comments about things, particul

>> education through washington, d.c. i don't want that. i want local education. i want the parents, and i want all of the teachers and i want everybody to get together around a school and to make education great. and it was very interesting. i was with dr. ben carson today, who is endorsing me, by the way, tomorrow morning, and he is -- we were talking. we spoke for over an hour on education. he has such a great handle on it. he wants competitive schools and a lot of different things that are terrific, including charter schools that the unions are fighting like crazy. but charter schools work and work very well. there are a lot of things. i'm going to have been very involved with education, something that's an expertise of him. >> to clarify, the common core standards were developed by the states. states and localities voluntarily adopt them and they coming up with their own curricula to meet those standards. when you say education by washington, d.c., what do you mean. >> but it's been taken over by the federal government. it was originally supposed to be that w

is evicted not only of that educator and his or her family by the students that are educated by his or her that's why this legislation make sense and to put it into context of what it means to a school worker let's look at the salary for a full kre7b89d teacher is less than 3 thousand 4 hundred conflict of interests a month that teacher has to if they want to stay in san francisco facing an eviction they have to deal with the market where a one bedroom apartment the medium rental prices for the one bedroom apartment is 3 thousand 6 hundred and 20 more than the entire money they make within a month the issue is worse foyer a paraprofessional here in san francisco a paraprofessional their average salary is $2,083 a month imagine living on that when you have to pay 3 thousand plus for a one bedroom a december 2015 professional survey by the educators of san francisco that represents payrolls and teachers found that 70 percent of all responded to that survey and 59 percent were concerned with the high cost of living in san francisco this is impacting the educators of our city x baiting

education management something.one of those terms years ago when this movement was just starting, private firms trying to make money off of poor children. i saw a stock perspective for one of these companies, i will not say which one, but a friend of mine on wall street, yes, i actually do, i actually do have a few friends on wall street, a friend of mine showed this to me, she dug it up and in looking for support, financial backing the firm's founder said, if we can open up the market competition in the public system, the k-12 market is the big enchilada. well, whoever thought that poor children would prove to be so helpful to the appetites of of wall street billionaires, anyway they are good at promotion. typically they renamed their schools so they sound like new england prep schools. they are picking for people. they will change it to an academy instead of a school, it it is now latino leadership academy. there is a chang called nobel schools. poor people think may be tony mars is teaching that, it may be nobel

king to be the education secretary. republicans won't have the privilege of picking an education secretary until we elect a president of the united states. what we need is an education secretary confirmed by and accountable to the united states senate so that the law to fix no child left behind will be implemented the way we wrote it. i urge my colleagues to vote "yes," and i conclude my remarks -- but i want to do so with thanks to the senator from washington, senator murray, who played such a crucial role in passing the law fixing no child left behind. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, thank you. i come to the floor as well today to speak in support of dr. john king's nomination to serve as secretary of education. this is really an important time for students when it comes to early learning. we've seen improvements but we have much more to do to expand access to high-quality preschool so more of our kids can start school on strong footing. this

from education and equity, dr.king has been honored from the urban league and lifetime achievement award from the i have a dream foundation and the new york immigration coalition and the builders of the new new york award and the heroes award. many of you became familiar with dr. king during last year's reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act. knowing the character and leadership of dr. king, i know that accessible and collaboration will persist through the range of his term as he and his staff work close low with the committee and the house committee on education and the workforce. i could not be more confident this this tenth secretary of education. it's my privilege to represent dr. king. >> dr. king has been well introduced. we welcome him and his wife and children. he is the acting secretary of education. before enjoying the department, he served as commissioner in new york. the managing director in new york and cofounder of the charter school in we invite you to give opening remarks. we

i went to public school and i was in the gifted and talented education for most of my education, i'm in the honors college here at u of a, i was wondering how you feel about gate because i don't think i got into the gate program because i'm gifted, i think i got in because i had parents who read to me when i was little and they have a college education. i think a lot of it is based off of the privilege that we have. i benefited a lot from that, so i don't know how you feel about that. >> first of all i'm sure you are very gifted to don't sell yourself short. you are realizing some of the structural issues that contribute to the place of privilege that you are able to tame. i think the issue for me is not so much getting rid of programs on accelerated tracks or enrichment opportunities, but not closing the door especially so early for so many children to be blocked out of them. that is really the problem. of course we should have more enrichment and gifted and talented programs but we should not make it so hard to get him best on a test you take when you are for that means essentially

like i vocational education. what we need to do is also focus on things like vocational education and make sure the skills being developed there really match where the job growth is. >> you talk about west virginia. when you were there, when you were growing up it was towards the end of the heyday. west virginia you notably point out separated around virginia around the civil war era because virginia was civil and rural and west virginia was powering the world with its coal. >> that's right. >> you saw the population of the west virginia dropped significantly when you were a kid but baltimore was a place people went to work after an industrial revolution, they went to worwentto work in factories s and that has also been lost. >> that's exactly right. as we move from an industrial economy to an increasingly technology rich knowledge based economy where we really have to look now is where is the data. land was the raw material of the agricultural age. iron was the raw material of the industrial age. data is the raw

is evicted not only of that educator and his or her family by the students that are educated by hisher that's why this legislation make sense and to put it into context of what it means to a school worker let's look at the salary for a full kre7b89d teacher is less than 3 thousand 4 hundred conflict of interests a month that teacher has to if they want to stay in san francisco facing an eviction they have to deal with the market where a one bedroom apartment the medium rental prices for the one bedroom apartment is 3 thousand 6 hundred and 20 more than the entire money they make within a month the issue is worse foyer a paraprofessional here in san francisco a paraprofessional their average salary is $2,083 a month imagine living on that when you have to pay 3 thousand plus for a one bedroom a december 2015 professional survey by the educators of san francisco that represents payrolls and teachers found that 70 percent of all responded to that survey and 59 percent were concerned with the high cost of living in san francisco this is impacting the educators of our city x baiting the

. >> we haven't talked about education in general, k-12 as well as higher education.pportunity for a young person, if they are in education system, more than likely going to lead them down a negative path. elevate that to higher education model outdated and doesn't keep up with education today. lots of young people doing well and accomplished, a lot of people wondering how they missed the boat. >> armstrong: so scott, you are a gen xer, how do you and maurice escape your obituary, what i mean is the script written for your generation? >> that is a great question. script we have right now is a lot to do with the economy. we are seen as entitled, seen as lazy. that is a message that doesn't have a lot of value. we are the generation that created facebook, created snapchat. creating one billion dollar industry of social media. education definitely plays a role in escaping those problems. i also think it has to do a lot with personal responsibility. >> armstrong: what about parents teaching personal responsibility and discipline? you see it in the large society i don't wa

education management something. one of those terms years ago when this movement was just starting, private firms trying to make money off of poor children. i saw a stock perspective for one of these companies, i will not say which one, but a friend of mine on wall street, yes, i actually do, i actually do have a few friends on wall street, a friend of mine showed this to me, she dug it up and in looking for support, financial backing the firm's founder said, if we can open up the market competition in the public system, the k-12 market is the big enchilada. well, whoever thought that poor children would prove to be so helpful to the appetites of of wall street billionaires, anyway they are good at promotion. typically they renamed their schools so they sound like new england prep schools. they are picking for people. they will change it to an academy instead of a school, it it is now latino leadership academy. there is a chang called nobel schools. poor people think may be tony mars is teaching that, it may be nobel

it has highly educated peopleir who are part of its core base and it has less educated people, includingsome of the minority groups. so it's a bit of a mix, but there has been no change at thee upper end time when she talked a lot about debt. >> guest: clearly that is a huge issue for young americans and give is one of the reasons why they are slow again into some of the milestones we ask young adults who are not married in her '20s and early '30sve they want to get married? yes. what's holding you back? i don't have a job. i don't have a terrific i cannot be a good provider and delicate those things lined up in my own life, i'm not ready think aboutd that next step. that plays out and lots of other sorts of behavior. it's a very tough, this is new in the country. however back to education i will tell you one more thing about college it as bad as it is kind of average college debt has doubled and more young adults have college debt than was the case. c it is also the case that in the america of 2016 the only thing more expensive than going to college is not going to collegeg if you look

all the students and parents and educators that stood up here and spoke for the establishment of ourchool system and classrooms that don't permit rational injustice in in any way, shape, or form and sure that the united educators of san francisco stand for that the institutional of racism in our classroom and fight for the opportunity for all of us to address the issues as they come up but justice for our students must have a stable community i'm here to mention that you as commissioners must use their power to keep our caveat educators i found out i this morning we have 40 some teachers that are elected to come back to the schools next year and disproportionately their on the southeast side of town 5 at drew and 4 at balboa park that is dial back in the just as the lowell i have step back and slow down the process and look at those and see who they are and who supporting who will you be recruiting when you don't get the teachers at lowell a burdening or crossing so slow down and look at who you're now reelecting and recruiting and support them and all the students thank you (clappin

i also think we do a much better job of educating than online only education. i think what limited evidence we have now suggest that that is true. that, we going to say have to generate data to say it. the same people who tell me that we should not be assessing hate the idea of online only education. they hate the idea of the demise of the liberal university. if that's the case and you need to be able to say to the rest of the world, we do something very well. to assess more in college and i think this can have a lot of benevolent institutions. the message should be to everyone involved, we take a lot of resources from society. college is very expensive. we are draining hundreds of thousands of dollars on the backs of young people who graduate into an uncertain economic climate. colleges receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government and we have invested college with this unfairly,- somewhat but this function of being a key linchpin of having a healthy economy. there is no enterprise in the world where we pay hundreds of millions of dollars

what are your education goals for brandon? >> working with the right teachers to actually access brandon because brandon is fully capable of understanding in real time what's happening, but due to his developmental delays it makes it difficult for all of us to communicate with him. >> reporter: so brandon is fully there, shouldn't he be taking regular classes? >> it depends on the teacher and it depends on the services. that's where it becomes a little bit tricky. >> reporter: because getting services isn't easy, even for parents who support inclusion. >> constantly there is a fight with the school district because they're saying, "yes we are providing service," when they're not. for example, leo has an hour speech a week. first i call and say, "what is the day that my son is going to be getting service?" i go there and the speech therapist is not there. >> what you're raising here is outcome 13. outcome 13 is the measure the school district has not been able to achieve. >> reporter: david rostetter, who was brought in by the

think about health care and education.e go from connecting 1,000 devices when cisco was formed in 1984 to 14 billion today to 500 billion. it's not the connectivity. it's getting the right information at the right time to the right machine to make the right decision whether it's on health care or entertainment. it does require all the staging and be very disruptive. it will create a much larger middle class in the middle east. countries in the middle east are known as start-up nations, not in the traditional industries but in a new era of applications and health care and education. i'm the optimist of the middle east, but it requires the citizens coming together behind the next revolution. >> fundamentally it's the implementation of academies where people get easy access to the education and training required to introduce them into this world in which they can be in start-ups and developing apps? >> exactly. i think each of the countries need to think about retransforming their education system. france is doing that, which

a quality education must mean a well-rounded education, a quality education must mean what we all want for our own children, science and social studies and access to the arts and opportunities to have physical education and develop personal health. opportunities for socio-emotional learning, acquiring the kinds of personal skills that carol has worked so hard to understand and describe. all right? that -- we've got to broaden our definition of a quality education, and the every student succeeds act gives us that opportunity. and so we're at a tremendous moment where as district leaders, education alleyeders in your communities, you need to be a part of those state conversations about how we define quality, what it is we ask schools to focus on. we also have, i think, a tremendous opportunity in the discussion around the every student succeeds act to focus intensely on issues of equity. the new law, every student succeeds act, is a civil rights law, the it is an update of the act of 19656789 it matters that it was adopted in 1965. it must be viewed in the context of the civil rights act

department of education. he previously served as the assistant director of the consumer financial protection bureau. the secretary of treasury named him as the agencies first student loan investment. has frequently testified before congress on alleviating student debt burdens and private student loan performance. a colleague. she is a professor of education, public policy, and economics at the university of michigan. susan is one of the countries top advocates for accessible higher education. testified before congress on education and tax policy and is widely consulted on student aid reform, including a federal reserve, the department of education and treasury, and with the department of economic advisories. she also writes with a new york times and if you are on twitter, i encourage you to follow her for an informative and witty commentary. about today's format. each of our panelists to getting with susan will kick things off with three opening remarks. i will then have the pleasure of moderating a conversat

is evicted not only of that educator and his or her family by the students that are educated by his or her that's why this legislation make sense and to put it into context of what it means to a school worker let's look at the salary for a full kre7b89d teacher is less than 3 thousand 4 hundred conflict of interests a month that teacher has to if they want to stay in san francisco facing an eviction they have to deal with the market where a one bedroom apartment the medium rental prices for the one bedroom apartment is 3 thousand 6 hundred and 20 more than the entire money they make within a month the issue is worse foyer a paraprofessional here in san francisco a paraprofessional their average salary is $2,083 a month imagine living on that when you have to pay 3 thousand plus for a one bedroom a december 2015 professional survey by the educators of san francisco that represents payrolls and teachers found that 70 percent of all responded to that survey and 59 percent were concerned with the high cost of living in san francisco this is impacting the educators of our city x baiting

education has always been a problem in new orleans specifically the public education system. and after katrina, we've stuck with that. so this year, our initiative is education and the prison industrial complex. so we will be going into a -- this high school before hurricane katrina was one of the best and now it's open enrollment and it's gone down. so we'll be talking about know your rights training and helping them with the transition there high school to college. and this year we also added the prison industrial complex. so we will be going for the juvenile system and how the education has faegtsaffected th students. >> that's a big issue right now. so who generally decidfo this? about if i were to ask you what kind of student goes to college and decides i want do this kind of work, is there a typical profile? >> i would not say that there a typical profile. we are definitely a very welcoming program and we encourage all of howard students to at least gain an experience with alternative spring break once. something that you'll often find is a lot of students have personal

the regular meeting of the board of education the san francisco unified school district for tuesday, february 23, 2016, is now called to order. >> roll call. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns ms. fewer ms. chin and mr. totiano thank you very much. >> please join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you all for approval of minutes the regular meeting of february 9th can i have a motion? >> so moved second any corrects roll call please. ms. chin mr. totiano ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell plumbi dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton and ms. wynns 7 i's. >> we want to welcome all of you who are here with us for anyone that wants to address the board of education i know that is many of you, you have to fill alleyway out a yellow card and please give to ms. casco before the item it called she'll accept those and make sure your name is called and be able to speak mr. superintendent our thoughts for the evening. >> thank you planting and a quick note question are capacity in the broad room some of you may be asked to step outsi

i'm from the san francisco board of education. i would like to thank you for bringing up this topic. it's a call for action for us and how it's so directly related to the academic achievement of our students. we had a presentation on the african american achievement and chronic absenteeism as one of the challenges. i'm glad that we are getting better data and i want to . that it disproportionately affects a certain group of children, and we are talking about our african american and latino children. it's a few things that are in common. it is the responsibility of our district and the city to address it in those terms. we are talking about schools and how it's concentrate in certain schools. we look at those schools and they have the highest concentration of those populations and uncredentialed teachers and the highest concentration of turnover of teachers. they also have the highest concentration of students that do not show up. we promise to the families to give them a high quality consistent education. we are now facing an unpr

i'm from the san francisco board of education. i would like to thank you for bringing up this topic. it's a call for action for us and how it's so directly related to the academic achievement of our students. we had a presentation on the african american achievement and chronic absenteeism as one of the challenges. i'm glad that we are getting better data and i want to . that it disproportionately affects a certain group of children, and we are talking about our african american and latino children. it's a few things that are in common. it is the responsibility of our district and the city to address it in those terms. we are talking about schools and how it's concentrate in certain schools. we look at those schools and they have the highest concentration of those populations and uncredentialed teachers and the highest concentration of turnover of teachers. they also have the highest concentration of students that do not show up. we promise to the families to give them a high quality consistent education. we are now facing an unpr

the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for tuesday, march 8, 2016, is now called to order roll call ms. fewer mr. reiskin o ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton vice president walton ms. wynns mr. haney ms. chin mr. totiano thank you please me the pledge of allegiance please join me the pledge of allegiance. >> (laughter). mr. vice president i think you have awning announcement around the agenda >> at the commissioner president haney i'm wroou resolution encouraging the students to exercise in their voting rights and be brought back at the march 22 regular board meeting. >> i want to welcome the members of the public thank you for being here if i want to address the board please fill out a speaker card the hallway and submit the speaker card before the item is called in front of the board mr. superintendent. >> thank you, very much president haney and good evening to everybody that is here and listening the saturday the san francisco unified school district and our board commissioner led by sandra fewer and attended by emily mu

educated. were anybody else who fall under the protection of that law should it come to pass. so that's the short answer. i'll go to law school next good >> i get that but i guess like spelling that out. i don't know if it's not in that resolution having nudity in our resolution because it is the enforcement piece of it that which i guess a teacher could sue if they've felt like you were discriminated against but if we didn't know that, how would others know that. if there's a way to put that into our resolution service more explosive. i don't know. just something i'm wondering about it >> if i could, the question has been raised as a matter fact in campos's office and one of the points they raise is that there already is a protection for students families in the district. believe me, one thing that san francisco has other than doing a corporate developers driving gentrification is the weave an army of people on the streets who are tenant activists and what they said at least anecdotally over a

department of education. he previously served as the assistant director of the consumer financial protection bureau. he led that agency's work on behalf of students and young consumers. the secretary of treasury named im as the agencies first student loan ombudsman. he has frequently testified before congress on alleviating student debt burdens and private tudent loan performance. susan is a colleague. she is a professor of education, public policy, and economics at the university of michigan. also co-director of the ford school's policy initiative. susan is one of the countries top advocates for accessible higher education. she has testified before congress on education and tax policy and is widely consulted on student aid reform, including a federal reserve, the department of education and treasury, and with the department of economic advisories. she also writes with a new york times and if you are on twitter, i encourage you to follow her for an informative and witty commentary. first, ignored about today'

educated. were anybody else who fall under the protection of that law should it come to pass. so that's the short answer. i'll go to law school next good >> i get that but i guess like spelling that out. i don't know if it's not in that resolution having nudity in our resolution because it is the enforcement piece of it that which i guess a teacher could sue if they've felt like you were discriminated against but if we didn't know that, how would others know that. if there's a way to put that into our resolution service more explosive. i don't know. just something i'm wondering about it >> if i could, the question has been raised as a matter fact in campos's office and one of the points they raise is that there already is a protection for students families in the district. believe me, one thing that san francisco has other than doing a corporate developers driving gentrification is the weave an army of people on the streets who are tenant activists and what they said at least anecdotally over a

the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for tuesday, march 8, 2016, is now called to order roll call ms. fewer mr. reiskin o ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton vice president walton ms. wynns mr. haney ms. chin mr. totiano thank you please me the pledge of allegiance please join me the pledge of allegiance. >> (laughter). mr. vice president i think you have awning announcement around the agenda >> at the commissioner president haney i'm wroou resolution encouraging the students to exercise in their voting rights and be brought back at the march 22 regular board meeting. >> i want to welcome the members of the public thank you for being here if i want to address the board please fill out a speaker card the hallway and submit the speaker card before the item is called in front of the board mr. superintendent. >> thank you, very much president haney and good evening to everybody that is here and listening the saturday the san francisco unified school district and our board commissioner led by sandra fewer and attended by emily mu

secretary of education. [applause] secretary king is a career ecker who taught -- educator who taught, served as a principal, operated a charter school and was new york state's education commissioner before joining the u.s. the president of education last year. now, with less than a year to go in the obama administration, secretary king is charged with implementing the nation's reauthorized k-12 law, the every student succeeds act. so please join me in welcoming secretary king to the stage. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> wow, that was low energy. [laughter] good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> that's better. it's a privilege to be here with all of you, grateful to leslie for the introduction can, grateful to education week for being a voice for students and educators and also for being a place for constructive, thoughtful dialogue. we're not always going to agree on every policy issue on education in the united states, for sure, but it's important that we have places for thou

[meeting adjourned] the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for tuesday, march 8, 2016, is now called to order roll call ms. fewer mr. reiskin o ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton vice president walton ms. wynns mr. haney ms. chin mr. totiano thank you please me the pledge of allegiance please join me the pledge of allegiance. >> (laughter). mr. vice president i think you have awning announcement around the agenda >> at the commissioner president haney i'm wroou resolution encouraging the students to exercise in their voting rights and be brought back at the march 22 regular board meeting. >> i want to welcome the members of the public thank you for being here if i want to address the board please fill out a speaker card the hallway and submit the speaker card before the item is called in front of the board mr. superintendent. >> thank you, very much president haney and good evening to everybody that is here and listening the saturday the san francisco unified school district and our board commissioner led by sandra fewer and

blanco or someone if education. >> little initials it the african-american ratio so the initial standoint. >> i want to someone to explain what 8857 as a baseline and the target of 8.2 what do you mean. >> so the reflex ratio is the core target not a san francisco target because we're actually you know doing well better than this exact target so what is saying that 8.5 percent of children have the reflex of being identified disproportionate in special education our goal we would like the risk to be lowered to 8.2 in terms of the sorry this overall special education we're actually doing better the gwen as you recall in san francisco if you were an african-american you were 9 minds more likely to be identified as emotionally disturbed and now less so it is the same commencement but for the overall education for african-american students. >> so such a small differential i mean is that you round it off it is still 8, however, you look at it you still have an 8 percent chance of being identified for special ed so the difference is really in significant or is that .3 or whatever it is does

and we want to go back to free public education. and compared to [laughs] nyu and columbia, that is very, very reasonable. but the quality of the education, "a," is primo, and, "b," for many students, it's the only opportunity that they can afford to get a four-year degree. >> that's the big point. it's the only opportunity, and that's really key -- where cuny used to be for free. we have professors that have been there for -- they want to go back to free education because the mission of public education is one of the highest ideals of this country. >> mm-hmm. and we should point out that it's not just -- right? -- city schools. >> right. >> you're the professor. tell me where your students come from. >> basically from new york city, but we get out-of-state. we have a lot of foreign students now. and so we have students from all over the world. it's not just city, but, of course, predominantly from new york city, yes. >> but the reason i point that out is, if the state's argument is that the city should do all the funding, but the s